{"id":69932,"date":"2014-10-02T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/69932\/residents-begin-to-get-their-lives-back-to-normal\/"},"modified":"2014-10-02T09:14:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T07:14:32","slug":"residents-begin-to-get-their-lives-back-to-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/02\/residents-begin-to-get-their-lives-back-to-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents begin to get their lives back to normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent weeks, residents of Germiston have had their fair share of ups and downs, caused by the water crisis.<\/p>\n<p>But, last Saturday, they had a glimmer of hope when the water supply returned.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The supply was sporadic to begin with, reported residents, but seems to have normalised more as the new week begins.<\/p>\n<p>Taryn Castle-Pearce shared her relief on Facebook: \u201cMarlands finally has water, after seven days of nothing.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s hope it remains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSunnyridge, Homestead and Gerdview have water but very little and sporadic, too,\u201d said Valarie Green.<\/p>\n<p>Robyn Wood Cordeiro said: \u201cSunnyrock just got, so it\u2019s been exactly a week since it first went off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have some in Marlands, but the pumps have been switched off,&#8221; said Kaylene Pohlmann Ferreira.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be reviewed on Monday, really?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are too complacent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Justice Mohale, media relations manager for Rand Water, released the following update to the press:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGermiston areas have water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEkurhuleni started pumps last Friday, September 26, to Sunnyridge tower and pumps tripped due to cavitation which is caused by air lock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPumps were restarted on the Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose pumps get supply from Northridge reservoir.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAirfield reservoir will be throttled until the level reaches 10 per cent, to boost the level of Northridge reservoir.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrimrose areas are getting water but still experiencing low pressure and some area still don\u2019t have water.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Albemarle, Castle View Dinwiddie, Northern parts of Katlehong are also experiencing low pressure and continued water cuts due to the leak on Ekurhuleni network and the municipality busy repairing the leak,\u201d explained Justice Mohale, media relations manager for Rand Water.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Rand Water sent out a second update:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll areas in Ekurhuleni have water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is, however, localised water supply problems, but the municipality is attending to them,\u201d said Mohale.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='a72c3b24a4fa9f97afb2ef5530504c62'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water restored to the suburbs of Germiston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":69430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Leigh Hodgson","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004,4999,1289,4896,4385],"class_list":["post-69932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-normalisation","tag-water","tag-water-crisis","tag-water-outage"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","normalisation","water","water crisis","water outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}